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Enrique Pichon Rivière Not known as a classical author of the Self, Enrique Pichon Rivière ’s ( 1971) “Del Psicoanálisis a la Psicología Social” (“From Psychoanalysis to Social Psychology”) inspired an important strand of continental psychoanalytic identity, linking psychoanalysis and social psychology, with important implications for theoretical and clinical conceptualizations of interconnectedness (‘link’) between the psychic interior and societal exterior domains. In the edited volume “The Linked Self in Psychoanalysis: The Pioneering Work of Enrique Pichon Rivière” (Losso, Setton and Scharff, 2017) about Pichon Rivière’s life’s contribution, Leticia Fiorini’s book endorsement states: “Pichon Rivière proposed a social psychology for psychoanalysis, emphasizing the necessary links between internal and external worlds”. Additionally, Kernberg’s endorsement of the same edited volume reads: “Pichon Rivière’s original concept of ‘link’ explains the relational linkages between self and object representations, and expands the concept of the link to the description of unconscious intrapsychic group formations”. According to Pichon Rivière (1971), the therapeutic process starts with ‘an existent’ (what is explicitly manifested) that gives rise to therapists’ interpretations. Existent interpretation-emergent movement is the work unit that constitutes the dialectic spiral. The latter shows the development of the analytic process, with its alternating progressions and regressions. Pichon Rivière ideas about ‘the internal group’, were further developed by Samuel Arbiser (2013), who describes how these internal linking structures, incorporated during evolutionary development reproduce the socio-cultural world in the internal world, and how they are in constant exchange with the linking structures of the present surrounding external world. These bridges between the internal and external worlds allow psychoanalysis to nourish with the myths that are part of the Latin American identity, a theme that has been addressed both from Psychoanalysis (Santamaría Fernandez 2000) and from Sociology (Tünnermann Bernheim, 2007). Alberto Cabral (2017) establishes a difference between those authors with whom one simply shares a temporal proximity, and those who, both for their ability to perceive the subjectivity of their time, as well as the shadows of it, deserve to be considered contemporary. Accordingly, the capacity of Pichon Riviėre to glimpse the conceptual utility of the ‘linked Self’ and develop the bridge between Psychoanalysis and Social Psychology locates him as a true contemporary. VII. B. The 80’s, The 90’s, and the Beginning of the XXI Century Roberto Doria Medina Eguía , one of the first to study Ego and Self Psychology in Argentina, studied the relationship between the psychopathology of perversions, borderline disorder, acting out and false self in female homosexuality (Doria Medina Eguía und Raggi de Leonetti 1980).
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